{"collection":"The I Ching, Legge tr.","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_ich_icap7_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_ich_icap7_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_ich_icap7_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/ich/icap7.htm","summary":"This is a scholarly translation of one of the traditional appendixes to the *I Ching* (Book of Changes), rendered in English verse \u2014 specifically the \"Treatise on the Hexagrams taken promiscuously,\" a classical Chinese rhyming text that pairs or groups the 64 hexagrams to illuminate their contrasting or complementary meanings. The work proceeds through the hexagrams by thematic opposition: strength against weakness, joy against anxiety, giving against seeking, scattering against consolidating, and so on, with each couplet or cluster distilling the essential lesson of one or two hexagrams into a phrase or line. The translator notes the original Chinese rhymes and line lengths are highly irregular and frankly untranslatable in their exact form, so the English version imposes a looser regularity. The distinctive interpretive claim running through the whole is that the hexagrams are best understood relationally \u2014 their meanings emerge through contrast and pairing rather than in isolation. The piece closes with a moral summary: the way of the good man prospers, while small or base men come to grief. It would interest readers studying I Ching hermeneutics, classical Chinese cosmology, or the history of Sinological translation.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The I Ching, Legge tr.: Appendix VII: Appendix VII","tradition":"The I Ching, Legge tr.","translated_text":null,"word_count":562}